In the 70th edition of Climate Action Figures, host John Whidden welcomes Alice from Uganda’s Karamoja sub-region and shares a QuickFix from Linda encouraging thrift-store clothing and repurposing. Alice describes local wildlife near Kidepo National Park, current temperatures, and severe climate change impacts in Karamoja, including recurring food insecurity, water scarcity, long dry spells, strong winds, and declining soil productivity, and notes developed societies contribute to these effects. She explains her background in the Ik Indigenous community, their displacement from the park in 1957, and tensions between conservation benefits and loss of cultural sites despite compensation. As a 2024 Indigenous Youth Fellowship participant, she led projects on climate education, school clubs, tree planting, forest restoration, radio outreach, and women-focused entrepreneurship via energy-saving stoves. Alice’s climate action is planting and caring for indigenous trees, and she finds hope in grassroots action and intergenerational knowledge transfer.
00:00 Welcome to Episode 70
00:32 QuickFix Thrifted Fashion
01:23 Meet Alice in Karamoja
02:25 Climate Impacts in Karamoja
04:02 Who Bears Responsibility
05:00 Ik People and Nature
06:38 Conservation and Displacement
08:58 Indigenous Stewardship
11:01 Passing Knowledge Forward
12:10 Youth Fellowship Project
15:06 Women and Clean Cookstoves
16:05 Indigenous Solutions Matter
16:43 Alice Climate Action and Hope
18:20 Closing and Subscribe
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